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[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Vincent Danen wrote:

> * Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> [2006-06-14 22:36:34 -0700]:
>
>>>> Alright.  Latest (and last) modifications to the manpage styles is
>>>> attached.
>>> Could you please send diffs (preferably against svn) instead of
>>> compressed tarballs?
>>>
>>> Diffs are much easier to check and to review.
>
> True, but these changes are quite hefty so a diff would actually be much
> bigger since it will essentially have every single line in both the old
> and new manpages.
>
>> I agree, but for this "one big change" tarball is quite ok, diff can be
>> reviewed with svn diff against the repo. However there's a slight problem
>> with this tarball:
>>
>> [gotcha]$ tar xjf ~/apt-man.tar.bz2
>> [gotcha]$ file *
>> apt-cache.8:       bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
>> apt-cdrom.8:       ASCII troff or preprocessor input text
>> apt-config.8:      ASCII troff or preprocessor input text
>> apt-get.8:         ASCII troff or preprocessor input text
>> apt.8:             ASCII troff or preprocessor input text
>> apt.conf.5:        ASCII troff or preprocessor input text
>> apt_preferences.5: troff or preprocessor input text
>> sources.list.5:    ASCII troff or preprocessor input text
>> vendors.list.5:    ASCII troff or preprocessor input text
>>
>> apt-cache.8 is actually tar.bz2 of the other manpages (and apt-cache.8
>> itself is missing from it) Vincent, please fix that and resend.
>
> Wierd.  Ok, new one attached.

Ok, this one's good. Applied, finally :)

>From now on, patches please and preferably in a way that doesn't mix 
visual changes with content changes when avoidable reasonably. That way 
it's far easier to see what exactly changes.

Thanks,

 	- Panu -